She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.